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Babel

by R.F. Kuang (Goodreads Author)

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"This reads like a children's book. Not even YA. Nothing wrong with that, but it's mismarketted. Not sure why I bought it. I'm hoping it improves but I feel I am being talked down to. It's marketed as fantasy so I'm not going to moan about the dubious history but... Am I being taught to suck eggs?
Also it could do with an edit... Too much of the language is too modern. This is a far cry from Philip Pullman" — Mar 10, 2026 09:42AM

Mar 10, 2026 09:42AM

Hilary’s Quotes

“I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: first-lines, science-fiction

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“Reality is what you can get away with.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Reality Is What You Can Get Away With

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“When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

tags: writing-dreaming

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“Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.”
― Robert Anton Wilson

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